Articles by Andrew Steenberg

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  Bobby Birdman

  Heart Caves

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  Remember Christmas as a kid, when you would race down the stairs and voraciously tear open your gifts? There’d always be that one present t...

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  Irving

  I Hope You're Feeling Better Now

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  With a new Radiohead album out, the inexplicable lingering popularity of nu-metal acts and the media’s sycophantic nattering about wholly d...

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  Lonesome Organist

  Forms and Follies

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  An audio disc seems a pretty dodgy medium to showcase the dexterity of a man who sings while playing drums, guitar, harmonica and keys simu...

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  The Notwist

  The Notwist / Nook / 12 / Shrink

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  Put the knife away, ‘cause scooping up the Notwist’s early albums won’t cost you your genitalia anymore. You knew someone would do it (not...

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  Roman Evenings

  Tiny Ladies

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  Some people just want to do it all. At a time when the airwaves seem flooded with synergistic rapper/actor/athletes and perfume spokesperso...

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  Skating Club

  Bugs and Flowers

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  After dumping years of stockpiled singles on a debut album, incipient bands often find themselves at a creative loss for follow-up material...

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  Toshack Highway vs. Sianspheric

  Magnetic Morning / Aspirin Age

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  When pot-induced paranoia (or bliss) would grip me in high school, I would imagine what a life-long high might be like. Theoretically, for...

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  Red Hot Chili Peppers / Queens of the Stone Age / The Mars Volta

  Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON - May 13, 2003

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Even if you don't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you've got to thank them for everything their tour of old folk funk-punk brings to your c...